[CFP] WCW 2004

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                    9th International Workshop on 
              WEB CACHING AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION (WCW)

                          Beijing, China
                  18 October - 20 October, 2004
                       http://wcw.cs.vu.nl/

          Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag


The International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW)
serves as the premiere meeting for researchers and practitioners to
exchange results and visions on all aspects of content caching,
distribution, and delivery. Starting from basic caching, research in
content distribution has broadened its scope to cover practically all
areas related to the intersection of content and networking, including
such areas as data grid computing, peer-to-peer computing, utility
computing, edge computing, application networking, pervasive networking
and content computing. Building on the success of the previous WCW
meetings, WCW9 plans to form a strong technical program that covers the
newest and most interesting areas relating to content services as they
move through the Internet.


IMPORTANT DATES

  26/04/2004: Deadline abstract submission
  03/05/2004: Deadline paper submission
  18/06/2004: Acceptance notification
  16/07/2004: Camera-ready papers due


CALL FOR PAPERS

The workshop solicits technical papers related to Internet content
caching and replication, content delivery, and content services
networking. Particular areas of interest include:

- Adaptive/dynamic replication and caching of Web content 
- Application/service networking
- Caching and edge services for the wireless Web
- Caching and replication for grid computing
- Caching and replication in peer-to-peer content delivery networks
- Caching and replication for utility computing
- Caching and replication for Web services
- Consistency management
- Content placement and request routing
- Data integrity and content security for the Web
- Dynamic-content caching and edge services
- Empirical studies of deployed content delivery systems
- Geographical influences on caching and replication
- In-stream content modification 
- Memory and storage management for content caches
- Overlay networks for content delivery
- Peering and content services internetworking
- Scalability issues in Web caching and replication 
- Security and availability of Web services 
- Streaming media caching and QoS
- Web workload analysis and characterization
- Wide-area upload and "content gathering"


GENERAL CHAIRS

Chi-Hung Chi, National University of Singapore
Lam Kwok Yan, Tsinghua University


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit (chair)
Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (vice-chair)
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich
Chin-Chen Chang, Chung Cheng University
Chi-Hung Chi, National University of Singapore
Michele Colajanni, University of Modena
Mike Dahlin, University of Texas at Austin
Magnus Karlsson, HP Labs
Ihor Kuz, National ICT Australia
Kwok-Yan Lam, Tsinghua University
Dan Li, Stanford University
Pablo Rodriguez, Microsoft at Cambridge UK
Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Labs Research
Geoff Voelker, University of California, San Diego
Limin Wang, Princeton University
Tao Wu, Nokia Research
Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia

GUIDELINES

Technical papers and synopses are welcome. Technical papers describe
previously unpublished research results or empirical evaluations of
current systems.  Synopses are summaries of interesting new problems or
approaches, or of standards or development efforts in progress.
Technical papers are limited to 5000 words; synopses are limited to 3000
words.  We require authors to first submit a 150-word abstract to ease
the process of reviewer assignment. The Program Committee will judge
submitted papers on relevance, significance, originality, clarity, and
technical merit.  We encourage authors to submit technically sound
contributions of interest.  Do not submit product marketing material or
material that is previously published or under review elsewhere.

Accepted papers will be published in the LNCS Series of Springer-
Verlag. Selected best papers might also be invited to a journal issue,
but that is still under negotiation. Authors of accepted papers will
present their work in 15-minute or 25-minute talks at the workshop, for
synopses and technical papers respectively. At least one author of each
accepted paper must attend the workshop to present their work.

Please submit technical papers and synopses in PDF format 
through the submission form on the conference Website.

PROPOSALS FOR PANELS

WCW panels bring together researchers from industry and academia. These
panels are an important element of WCW.  Please send panel proposals in
plain text by e-mail to the Program Chair (steen-FV+mU1CFjts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).

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